Copyright

Yankev Leshchinsky

Published On

2024-09-16

Page Range

pp. 109–114

Language

  • English
  • Yiddish

Print Length

6 pages

5. Government antisemitism

  • Yankev Leshchinsky (author)
  • Robert Brym (translator)
  • Eli Jany (translator)
Chapter of: The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37(pp. 109–114)
Leshchinsky illustrates a “downward slide on the part of official circles toward the antisemitic program of the Endeks” (members of the Narodowa Demokracja party). He cites the Polish Prime Minister’s June 1936 statement in parliament legitimizing the “economic struggle” against Jews and noting that the Prime Minister was quoted by antisemitic lawyers and tens of Christian witnesses at the 1936 Pshitik pogrom trial. Leshchinsky shows that the “economic struggle” is widely interpreted to include not just boycotts but physical assaults with the aim of “eradicating and expelling Jews.” Meanwhile, “the government is keeping quiet about the pogroms against Jews.” Undated, 1936?

Contributors

Yankev Leshchinsky

(author)

Robert Brym

(translator)
SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus at University of Toronto
Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto
https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Robert Brym, FRSC, is SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and an Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest works include Robert Brym and Randal Schnoor, eds, The Ever-Dying People? Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023) and “Jews and Israel 2024: Canadian Attitudes, Jewish Perceptions,” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études Juives Canadiennes (38: 2024), 6–89. For downloads of Brym’s published work, visit https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Eli Jany

(translator)
PhD student at University of Toronto

Eli Jany is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has translated poems by Sarah Reisen (In geveb, 12 May 2020, https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/three-poems-reisen) and, with Robert Brym, co-translated volume 1 of The Last Years of Polish Jewry and “Jewish Economic Life in Yiddish Literature: Yitskhok Ber Levinzon and Yisroel Aksenfeld,” East European Jewish Affairs (53, 1: 2024), both by Yankev Leshchinsky.